Classification of hospital admissions into emergency and elective care: a machine learning approach.
Health Care Manag Sci
; 22(1): 85-105, 2019 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29177993
ABSTRACT
Rising admissions from emergency departments (EDs) to hospitals are a primary concern for many healthcare systems. The issue of how to differentiate urgent admissions from non-urgent or even elective admissions is crucial. We aim to develop a model for classifying inpatient admissions based on a patient's primary diagnosis as either emergency care or elective care and predicting urgency as a numerical value. We use supervised machine learning techniques and train the model with physician-expert judgments. Our model is accurate (96%) and has a high area under the ROC curve (>.99). We provide the first comprehensive classification and urgency categorization for inpatient emergency and elective care. This model assigns urgency values to every relevant diagnosis in the ICD catalog, and these values are easily applicable to existing hospital data. Our findings may provide a basis for policy makers to create incentives for hospitals to reduce the number of inappropriate ED admissions.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Patient Admission
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Elective Surgical Procedures
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Emergency Medical Services
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Machine Learning
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Middle aged
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Newborn
Language:
En
Journal:
Health Care Manag Sci
Journal subject:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany